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SwitchHitter Oct 27 2006 10:42 AM

[url=http://www.slate.com/id/2152255/]830! How a Massachusetts carpenter got the highest Scrabble score ever.[/url]

HahnSolo Oct 27 2006 03:01 PM

Some of those competitive scrabble players seem like real wankers. And I never knew that if you got one word to cover 2 triple word squares that it was worth 9 times the value.

Edgy DC Oct 27 2006 03:08 PM

I had a nine-timer set up once in an online game and the (using insult generator) pussmunch stared at his tiles for ten minutes before quitting. Pretty much made me retire from online Scrabble right there.

Frayed Knot Oct 27 2006 03:10 PM

"Some of those competitive scrabble players seem like real wankers" Naw, they're completely well-adjusted people[/eyeroll] That sounded like one wild, fuckin' game. I can't imagine passing up a shot at a TWS on the off chance that you not only hit the Hail Mary for the letters you need but that your opponent passes it up also. I also can't imagine being the guy who starts off with two consectutive 'Bingos' while his opponent is passing and changing letters and still winds up getting swamped! "And I never knew that if you got one word to cover 2 triple word squares that it was worth 9 times the value" Pulled that off once, but I assure you it wasn't with tiles on the order of Qs & Xs and it wasn't for anything near 350 points.

cooby Oct 27 2006 03:22 PM

I love how wanker has worked its way into everyday conversation around here. I wonder how it would fly in Scrabble

Frayed Knot Oct 27 2006 03:44 PM

WANKER = legal; even in the American version of the game.

Johnny Dickshot Oct 27 2006 03:52 PM

Perfectly legal! What a cool game! You gotta love a guy who goes fishing so as spell QUIXOTRY on a triple-triple. He deserves the damn record.

Willets Point Oct 27 2006 06:19 PM

The largest possible score for "scrapple", in a regulation game of Scrabble with the original board, is 203 points, with the word covering two Triple Word Score squares, in a play using seven tiles with one tile already in place on a non-premium square. The 14-point word, with one "P" on a Double Letter square, counts 17 pts, tripled and then re-tripled making 153, plus a 50-point bonus for the 7-letter play, or "Bingo". This total of 203 disregards any additional words scored in the same play.

Nymr83 Oct 27 2006 07:45 PM

Edgy DC wrote: I had a nine-timer set up once in an online game and the (using insult generator) pussmunch stared at his tiles for ten minutes before quitting. Pretty much made me retire from online Scrabble right there. thats the problem with all online board/card games, people quit when they are losing, making the game no fun for anyone else, i gave up online chess, checkers, scrabble, free poker and several others over this. the only "solutions" are playing with friends or playing for money (feel free to quit on me when i get your money out of it, i really won't mind then)

Johnny Dickshot Oct 27 2006 09:29 PM

Nymr83 wrote: ="Edgy DC"]I had a nine-timer set up once in an online game and the (using insult generator) pussmunch stared at his tiles for ten minutes before quitting. Pretty much made me retire from online Scrabble right there. thats the problem with all online board/card games, people quit when they are losing, making the game no fun for anyone else, i gave up online chess, checkers, scrabble, free poker and several others over this. the only "solutions" are playing with friends or playing for money (feel free to quit on me when i get your money out of it, i really won't mind then) I'll be up to re-start the CPF Hot Stove Scrabble League again this winter. In case you weren't around in 2003, you missed some real barnburners. The IGTs start on page 2: [url]http://p079.ezboard.com/fthecranepoolforumfrm34.showMessage?topicID=4.topic[/url]

Edgy DC Oct 28 2006 12:10 AM

Good save by Scarlet.